Chronological age estimation is crucial labour in many clinical procedures, where the teeth have proven to be one of the best estimators. Although some methods to estimate the age from tooth measurements in orthopantomogram (OPG) images have been dev...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jan 25, 2020
Breast ultrasound and computer aided diagnosis (CAD) has been used to classify tumors into benignancy or malignancy. However, conventional CAD software has some problems (such as handcrafted features are hard to design; conventional CAD systems are d...
Pancreas segmentation is a challenging task in medical image analysis especially for the patients with pancreatic cancer. First, the images often have poor contrast and blurred boundaries. Second, there exist large variations in gray scale, texture, ...
Computational and mathematical methods in medicine
Jan 24, 2020
Visual effects of medical image have a great impact on clinical assistant diagnosis. At present, medical image fusion has become a powerful means of clinical application. The traditional medical image fusion methods have the problem of poor fusion re...
OBJECTIVE: To assess the classification performance between Parkinson's disease (PD) and normal control (NC) when semi-quantitative indicators and shape features obtained on dopamine transporter (DAT) single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT...
Medical & biological engineering & computing
Jan 22, 2020
Interstitial lung disease (ILD) refers to a group of various abnormal inflammations of lung tissues and early diagnosis of these disease patterns is crucial for the treatment. Yet it is difficult to make an accurate diagnosis due to the similarity am...
BACKGROUND: Postoperative gastrointestinal leak and venous thromboembolism (VTE) are devastating complications of bariatric surgery. The performance of currently available predictive models for these complications remains wanting, while machine learn...
Infections have become the major cause of morbidity and mortality among patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) due to immune dysfunction and cytotoxic CLL treatment. Yet, predictive models for infection are missing. In this work, we develop...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Jan 16, 2020
Existing multi-label medical image learning tasks generally contain rich relationship information among pathologies such as label co-occurrence and interdependency, which is of great importance for assisting in clinical diagnosis and can be represent...
BACKGROUND: Opioid Use Disorder (OUD), defined as a physical or psychological reliance on opioids, is a public health epidemic. Identifying adults likely to develop OUD can help public health officials in planning effective intervention strategies. T...
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